Mumbai To Get Its First "Toilet On Wheels" Soon - Details Here

According to a latest development, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to convert scrapped buses into mobile toilets - “Toilet on Wheels” - for women.

The civic body will set up its first utility centre in Byculla, South Mumbai later this month.

The BMC will acquire buses from Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport and private companies under Corporate Social Responsibility and will be painted pink.

The buses that have been refurbished will be turned into motorable toilets. The toilets will be known as “Mahilasathi Swacchatagruha” or Pink Utility centres.

The centre will be set up on a pilot basis, and after seeing the response the number of similar utility centres will be determined.

BMC officials stated that the primary objective of the project was to provide hygienic toilets for women. In Mumbai, there is also a shortage of space, therefore the civic body will be using old scrapped buses for this project.

Moreover, the BMC guidelines forbid the construction of toilets on footpaths, thus old buses will be converted into moving toilets.

Here are its features:

• The utility centre will be like a public toilet but will contain additional features such as changing rooms, washing machines, vending machines for female hygiene products, a specialised compartment for breastfeeding, and WiFi.
• Each compartment will also have a panic button in case of emergencies.
• The civic authorities said they plan on constructing 30 public toilets under the Swacch Bharat Mission. The BMC had earlier planned on constructing around 22,500 public toilet seats.
• The public toilets will be placed in the city in prominent places such as Churchgate station, Girgaon Chowpatty, Haji Ali junction, Mulund check naka and other places.
• The BMC will be building four more washrooms along the Eastern Express Highway between Nahur and Vikhroli, nearly 10 years after the civic body adopted the concept of highway toilets in the city.